Tip-truck.



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. TIP TRUCK.

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TIP-TRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented. Dec. 5, 1911.

7 Application filed May 26, 1911. Serial No. 629,725.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, K0NRAD MALoHnR, a citizen ofthe German Empire, andresiding at Gleiwitz, Silesia, German Empire, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Tip-Trucks, of which the following is .a

- the wheelsare mounted, and the upper surface ofwhich tip frame isflush with' the upper surfaces of the wheel frames, so that when thebody of the truck is in itsnormal position on the frameit will restequally both on its own tipping frame and on the wheel frames.Furthermore the tipping mechanism is located and arranged so. that itcannot be operated until. the body of the truck has been swung around inthe hori zontal plane ready to be tipped.

In order to render? the present specifica tion easily intelligible,reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which simi-'- larletters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of the truck partly'in section,Fig. 2 is a plan view of the under framing, Fig. 3 is a cross sectionalview of the. underframing showing the body of the truck in dotted lines,swung around, but not yet tipped and Fig. 4 is a similar View showingthe. frame and the body in the tipped position.

The body a of theftruck is provided at its bottom with a centraldownwardly extending pivot 1) adapted to engage a pivot hearing f0supported by means of suitable cross arms or stays (Fig. '2) in the tipframe d. The means advantageously employed for swinging the body a ofthe truck around its pivot b may consist of a crown-30f downwardlyextending teeth 2 fixed to the bottom of the body and engaged by asuitable gear or pinion k keyed to a shaft Z mounted either in the tipframed or, as shown, in the wheel frame e and having its outer endsquared or otherwise shaped to receive a hand crank or the like. Theframes e e carrying each a pair (or, in the case of bogies, a set) ofwheels f are rigid frames which support the tip frame Ll by means ofpivotal connectionsg q.

will be seen from Figs. g l ttndjl, the top of these wheel frames 0 19?age flush with the top of the tip fra1ne"'(l-\v 1en the latter is in itshorizontal 'p-csit-iongfso that the body of the truck will restoriittllthree 'fran'ies .when. injits normal position. The

tip nam cl entirely incloses the two wheel frames thus protecting themagainst external damage, when the truck is running.

The frame cl and with it the truck body may be tipped or tilted by anysuitable means. Thus for instance in the drawing, toothed segments a nare provided, support-g ed on cross beams m n of the frame (l.

Pinions 0 0 on a shaft 72 engage these seg ments, the said shaft p beingmounted in suitable bearings in the wheel frame e The shaft 12 carries,keyed thereto, a worm wheel g in which a worm 1* engages, fixed to orformed on a shaftr mounted in the frame 0. This shaft carries cranks s.9 one at each end and these cranks are located within the tip frame d,underneath the body of the truck. Thus as will be readil seen from Fig.2 they are not accessible or operation "to tip "the frame (1, until thebody a of the truck has been swung around in the horizontal plane. 1 f

The operation of the device will be obvious from the foregoingspecification and needs no further explanation; The bufiers It aremounted on the tip frame (1 and will be tipped. or tilted with the same.

The embodiment of the invention is de: scribed and illustrated as anexample, the details of construction might be varied in many ways. i

I claim as my invention:-

1} In a tip truck, comprising a pair of rigid Wheel carrying frames, oneapproximately at each end of the't ruck, a truck horizontal plane andmeans for tipping the same, when swung around, the combination of a upframe entirely inclosing the wheelcarrying frames and pivots locatedlongitu'dinally centrally of the truck to support said tip frame on thesaid wheel frames.

2. In a tip truck comprising a pair of rigid wheel carrying frames, oneappr0xi-,

mately at each end of the tnuck, a:truck body pivotally supportedthereon, means for swinging the same around its pivot in a horizontalplane and means for tipping the same, when swung around, the combinationof a tip frame entirely inclosing the wheel carrying frames, pivots tosupport said tip frame longitudinally and centrally in said Wheelframes, the upper surfaces of said tip and wheel frames being flush witheach other.

3.. In a tip truck comprising a pair of rigid wheel carrying frames, oneapproximately at each end of the truck, a truck body pivotally supportedthereon, means for swinging the same around its pivot in a horizontalplane and means for tipping the around, the tipping mechanism beinglocated beneath the end of the truck body when the latter is in itsnormal position on the said frames.

In t stimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

KONRAD MALCHER.

Witnesses:

H. WAIT, FRANK KRATZ.

